Backlash
a backlash (noun) - a sudden strong reaction in society against some recent tendency or development
fear a backlash
a backlash effect
arouse a backlash
backlash of adverse publicity
critical backlash
a grassroots backlash
a political backlash
a conservative backlash
a nationalist backlash
a fascist backlash
a yuppie backlash
a backlash from
a backlash against
anticipated backlash
a backlash that followed
a fierce backlash
a backlash built up
anti-x backlash
periods of anti-x backlash
a backlash against a cause
raise a backlash
cause a backlash
a popular backlash
fearful of a popular backlash
a green backlash
make sure there's no backlash
face a furious backlash
provoke a furious backlash
Example sentences:
* "We could well see a backlash as business doing their bit for the environment lose heart at the apparent lack of consumer interest."
* The protests seem so useless if you remember the protests of 1986 and the backlash that followed.
* "They argued that the continuation of reformist policies was largely dependent on Deng's personal authority, and that his death might signal a conservative backlash against the predicted rise in prices and growth in unemployment."
* "But I am concerned that mass sponsored bicycle rides when bicycles clog the roads can be very chaotic and any difficulties caused could raise a backlash against both your cause and cyclists in general.
* Too much spending by a candidate can in fact cause a backlash.
* But there was a green backlash yesterday at the prospect of a further big expansion of oil and gas exploration off the coast.
* Conservative rebels faced a furious backlash from senior colleagues last night during a furious row over the controverial treaty.
* "The Home Secretary alerted Tory MPs to expect a public backlash when he went on TV to ram home the message that painful spending decisions had to be accepted by the country."
* The bill provoked a furious backlash from Labour and union leaders.
* It is worthy of note, however, that these heavy-handed presidents were all followed by periods of anti-executive backlash.
* "The Pit Bull breed of dog is currently undergoing a backlash of adverse publicity in light of the Government's ban on aggressive dogs, such as the American Pit Bull Terrier and Japanese Tosa."
* Television was so quick to join the Yuppie Backlash that there is now a real danger of a Yuppie Backlash Drama Backlash, in which the viewer starts muttering about not being able to switch on the bloody set without seeing a broker being broken.
* They feared a backlash from a disenfranchised group of former employees who lost their jobs during economic downturn and layoffs last year.
* After the punitive trade sanctions against the country by Great Britain there was an anti-British backlash.
* "In the late 1920s there was a critical backlash against films that tried to match Hollywood styles. The British cinema was defined as the opposite of Hollywood; abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism, restraint and understatement."
* It was likely that the new film would arouse backlash over its drug content.
* They were the only group of people who were prepared to speak out and take action in the face of this backlash.
* "They got the backlash they asked for."
* He has complained that he was misrepresented by newspapers, and had suffered a fierce backlash.
* The writers of the series, like other intellectuals, were aware of the ever-present possibility of backlash and apparently were advised to keep quiet.
* Although this is thought to be long overdue by some of my colleagues, will there be a backlash at some point?
* "During the next few months a violent fascist backlash, an orchestrated campaign of civil disorder and terrorism culminating in armed insurrection, led him to conclude that very firm counter-measures were necessary."
* "It is perhaps not surprising that this caused a political backlash in the early 1990s."
* A sort of backlash built up, that led to explosive street protests.
* The movement in parliament was a backlash against quotas where you have got to vote for a certain number.
* "The nationalist backlash against the restoration of minority rights began on with demonstrations by more than 10,000 people in a small town near the capital."
* An apparent backlash against radical reformers by the conservative wing of the ruling party, soo followed.
* Embassy and other American appraisals concluded that if Labour were too much swayed by the unions, the conservatives might prove even more fearful of a popular backlash and thus be even less willing to introduce adequate deflationary policies.
